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RandyT:


--- Quote from: jagnogg on May 29, 2004, 09:00:47 am ---I'm also going to try and install an anti-cheating device. If I can find a switch that is activated by an infrared beam - an electric eye type thing, I'm going to install it so the beam goes across the path of the ball on the ramp. It should be hidden from view because it'll be under the rubber bumber rails that run along the sides of the ramp. Anyway, if the eye beam switch doesn't trip but a score registers then you know somebody just dropped the ball into the hole. This will result in a loud blaring siren and "CHEATER!!!!" across the screen. I'm planning ahead for when my son tries to cheat. Hey Dad! I got 1000 on skee ball!!!

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Heh.  Make sure you disconnect the keyboard from the pass-through.  If he figures out what key is connected to the "electric-eye", he won't even need to drop the balls in  :D

RandyT

Chris:


--- Quote from: zell on May 29, 2004, 09:20:12 am ---jagnogg - that's awesome!  Can't wait to see your screenshots.  Could you post the dimensions as well?  Could you make a ticket dispencer work with an ipac?  100 tickets = 1 beer!  That would be awesome.

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Happ's and Bob Roberts have ticket dispensers that could be triggered through an IPac LED pulse...



jagnogg:


RandyT - I have an older machine. I'm not sure what the material on the ramp is. The best compairison I can come up with is that it's like the bottom of a well worn dress shoe. Leathery, but very tough leather. I was given a packet of paperwork on the machine from the guy who sold it to me. Maybe it has some info in there. I doubt it though. From what I remember it was mostly schmatics for electronic components that my machine no longer had :(

Zell - I can take some measurements and post them with the pictures. The wooden part of the game is fairly simple really. The only tricky part to replicating one of these, I think, would be the curve at the end of the ramp. It looks like there would be some wood bending involved.



jagnogg:


--- Quote from: Ken Layton on May 28, 2004, 06:02:21 pm ---What happens when it comes time to move it???

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Believe it or not, I was able to fit the entire machine into a Toyota Tacoma with a cap on the back when I picked it up. They are built modularly so they break down into many pieces easily. If you replicate one, you'd be able to move it up stairs and through doorways without too much trouble.

RandyT:


--- Quote from: zell on May 29, 2004, 09:20:12 am ---jagnogg - that's awesome!  Can't wait to see your screenshots.  Could you post the dimensions as well?  Could you make a ticket dispencer work with an ipac?  100 tickets = 1 beer!  That would be awesome.

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You really want to count tickets before handing out a beer?  :)

For the price of a ticket dispenser (and all those tickets) you could pick up a small thermal printer that runs off a standard printer port.  Reach a certain score, get a coupon for a beer...or whatever :)

RandyT

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